Happy Weekend (1996)

Movie
Original title	Happy weekend
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1996
length	90 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Ed Duke
script	Ed Herzog ; Rainer Knepperges
production	Hanno Huth
music	Till Brönner
camera	Georg Fick
cut	Oliver Gieth
occupation
	Erik Goertz : Joachim Krippo; Anton Rattinger : Horst; Ralf Richter : Angels; Dieter Wardetzky : Grandpa Krippo; Isabel Trimborn : Uschi; Ellen Umlauf : Ms. Sussmeit; Jörg Friedrich : Bunge; Hans Martin Stier : Grassworm; Lothar Lambert : Rolf; Nilgün Gautler : Karin; Sophie Rois : nurse; Mario Mentrup : Barwandt; Thomas Nicolai : Dr. Finches; Rainer Knepperges : Erwin; Alfred Holighaus : soccer player in uniform; Till Brönner : Member of the police band;

Happy Weekend is a German movie from 1996 directed by Ed Herzog based on a script by Herzog and Rainer Knepperges . The two had previously made a short film of the same title at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin, where Herzog was studying at the time. The 15-minute long film from 1993 animated the producer Hanno Huth , then managing director of Senator Film , to shoot the story together with them again as a full-length feature film. The main actors of the short film, Erik Goertz and Anton Rattinger , also played their respective roles one more time.

action

The focus is on the young bisexual police officer Joachim Krippo. Krippo and his colleagues are not averse to excessive alcohol and group sex . And if they do it too rough, they have to go to group therapy with Ms. Sussmeit at the police headquarters. The brisk threesome with his friend and invitation as well as with Rolf and his wife Karin come to an abrupt end at home when Krippo's grandpa moves in. He's keen on wooden penises and the neighbour's Tupperware parties. And then the sex addict Krippo is supposed to chase the escaped prisoner Engel. Of course, he finds him at a group sex party. Krippo throws himself into the fray, not realizing that Engel is also there, who meanwhile has a relationship with Horst's wife, the podiatrist Uschi.

criticism

Petra Sorg wrote in her review of the “bizarre cinema debut” for the Berliner Zeitung “No milieu study, no, Ed Herzog presented a relentlessly humane, often relentlessly funny parody of the otherwise deadly serious and heavily armed cop genre.”

The lexicon of the international film judges: “A young police officer who has been suspended from duty experiences various sex adventures in a petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded milieu, where he is surrounded by drunkards and sex fanatics. Extremely clumsy clothes full of clichéd typifications. "

Web links

Happy Weekend in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Happy Weekend at Filmportal.de

Individual evidence

↑ Happy Weekend (short version). In: Archive of the dffb. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .
↑ Petra Sorg: In his bizarre film debut, Ed Herzog tells of an unusual police officer: self-made revolver holsters. In: Berliner Zeitung. March 14, 1996, accessed October 13, 2019 .
↑ Happy Weekend (1995). In: Lexicon of International Films. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .

[1] Happy Weekend (short version). In: Archive of the dffb. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .

[2] Petra Sorg: In his bizarre film debut, Ed Herzog tells of an unusual police officer: self-made revolver holsters. In: Berliner Zeitung. March 14, 1996, accessed October 13, 2019 .

[3] Happy Weekend (1995). In: Lexicon of International Films. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .